Suter blasts his side as their eight-game unbeaten league run ends at Southwick

LITTLEHAMPTON manager John Suter blasted his team’s peformance, labeling it their worst of the season, as they crashed to their first league defeat in eight games at Southwick on Tuesday night.

Southwick’s James Wotherspoon hit a 73rd-minute winner to sink a disappointing Golds 2-1 in their County League Division 2 clash.

Suter was left bitterly disappointed by his team’s woeful showing. He said: “We were terrible, awful and it was our worst performance of the season. We lacked urgency, desire, passion and effort. We were poor individually and collectively.

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“Southwick worked harder than us and were up for it more. I’ve got nothing positive to say about us tonight and I’ll be looking for a response on Saturday.”

Wickers had set the tone for the match as early as the second minute, by which time they could have already been two goals up. Ryan Storrie fired just wide, and Harry Constable’s effort was tipped away by former Southwick keeper Dean Fuller.

Josh Wells lobbed an effort over, and Constable put another shot wide as Wickers threatened to run riot early on.

Golds never got going, and, a David Gaskin half-chance aside, failed to muster a meaningful effort on goal all night, apart from the one that gave them the lead on 39 minutes.

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Matt Russell outpaced Wickers’ captain Elliott Finney, and squared for the diminutive Jason Jarvis to slot home.

Despite Littlehampton’s lead, Wickers were always in the game and it didn’t take long for them to draw level after the restart. Wells’ cross deflected off Chris Hazell, and fell into the path of Scott Hunt, who bundled it in.

The two sides then cancelled each other out, with Southwick still looking likelier, and they got their reward 17 minutes from time. Marcus Strevens threaded a ball through to Wotherspoon, who fired in from 10 yards.

Ex-Golds striker Idriz Adedoja then had a chance to seal the points against his old club, but dragged his shot wide, and Constable was then needlessly sent off for a second bookable offence.

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That led to a spell of late Littlehampton pressure, but Wickers deservedly held out.

LITTLEHAMPTON TOWN: Fuller; Hazell, Crawford, McKay, Wollers; Russell, Peacock, O’Hagan, Gaskin; Boutwood, Jarvis. Subs: Stocker (Boutwood 68), Beadle (Russell 82), Collender, Hellen, Askew.

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